Lamp-supporting device



IVI. KOSSIVIANN.

LAMP SUPPORTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED 00130. 1918.

1L 3O5, 1 fig Patented May 27, 1919.

MAX KOSSMANN, or BROOKLYN, new YORK.

LAMP-SUPPORTING- DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 27, 1919.

Application filed October 30, 1918. Serial No. 260,242.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAX KossMANN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Brooklyn, Kings county, State of New York have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lamp-Supporting Devices, of which the following is a; full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in lamp supporting devices, the object being to provide a support for an electric lamp or socket adapted to detachably secure the lamp to a. vase or the like, or other objects having open ends or necks. One of the chief objects of my invention is to provide a support fora lamp-socket arranged to engage open-end vessels whereby a lamp standard can be formed out of a household vase or jar. To carry out my invention I provide a base consisting of a cup-shaped shell-member and adjustable yieldable gripping devices or legs carried thereby adapted for insertion into a vase or jar, special means being provided to secure the shell to a lamp-socket. Other features of improvement will hereinafter appear.

I will now proceed to describe my invention in detail, reference being laid to the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a sectional view of my improvement, partly in elevation, illustrated as attached to a lamp socket;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the plate portion of the base which carries the grip-ping devices;

Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic illustration of the device applied to a' vase;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view of the device for securing the lamp-socket and base shell together.

As herein illustrated my improvement consists of a base made up of a cup-shaped shell 6, a plate 7, legs or gripping-members 8, and means to connect the shell of the base with a lamp-socket 9, consisting of a connecting post 10 and screw 11. In this instance the connecting post consists of a hickey, an element well known in the electric fixture art; but any connecting element through which wires, indicated by 12, can be passed, will suffice.

The socket 9 is of the standard variety having a threaded tubular stud 13 which passes through an opening 14 in the shell 6. The stud 13 is engaged by one end of the connecting element 10, said end being provided with a threaded opening 15 to engage said stud. The opposite end of the connection 10 is provided with a threaded opening 16 to be engaged by the screw 11 which passes through an opening 17 in the plate 7.

The legs or gripping devices 8 consist of fluted yieldable resilient members having a turned over end or foot 18 which lies against the plate 7, and is held by a binding screw or bolt 19 which passes through said foot and through a slot 20 in said plate. Each bolt 19 is provided with a nut 21 by means of which the legs are securely held in adjusted positions. The legs 8 may be shifted in or out to suit the opening through which they are to pass. By reason of the fact that the legs or clamping elements 8 are yieldable and resilient they will support the lamp when they are placed in the neck of a vase, for instance, indicated by 22 in Fig. 3. In fact, the purpose of. the gripping devices 8 is to adapt. the device for attachment to vessels, such as vases or j a-rs, or to any element having an opening to receive the said devices 8. The tinting of the gripping devices adapts them to engage irregular surfaces. such as the corrugated or fluted neck of vases or jars.

Having described my invention what I claim is The, combination of a shell having an opening to receive the threaded stud at one end of a'lamp socket, a connecting device having a threaded opening to engage said stud and secure said shell to the lamp socket,

said connecting device being provided with 

